I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image